Autograph letters signed (4) : London, Cheltenham, and Niger Territories, West Africa, to Mrs. Henry Yates Thompson, 1894 July 6-1890 Oct. 1.

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Autograph letters signed (4) : London, Cheltenham, and Niger Territories, West Africa, to Mrs. Henry Yates Thompson, 1894 July 6-1890 Oct. 1.

Accepting or declining dinner invitations, including one from London that reached him 100 miles up the Niger River.

4 items (7 p.) ; (16mo and 12mo)

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Cahoon, Herbert, 1918-2000

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Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928

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Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), book-collector, was born at Dingle Cottage, near Liverpool, on 15 December 1838. He attended Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1862), and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1867. He was private secretary to the viceroy of Ireland, the 5th Earl Spencer, between 1868 and 1873, and travelled widely from 1862 to 1875. Thompson was the Sandars reader in bibliography at Cambridge University in 1901 and 1904. He formed a large collection of illuminate...

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Lugard, Frederic John Dealtry, Baron, 1858-1945.

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British author and colonial administrator. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : London, Cheltenham, and Niger Territories, West Africa, to Mrs. Henry Yates Thompson, 1894 July 6-1890 Oct. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871370 ...